Sentences with phrase «increasing youth education»

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Now, with heightened awareness of its importance, this element in youth education has increased.

As the general quality of public education has declined, at least in public perception, and as the power of the youth culture in public schools has increased, many more parents seek private schools for their children, and many of these schools are connected with churches.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

In the year 2000, the U.S. Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Education issued a joint report recommending sport participation as a strategy to increase energy expenditure, activity, and fitness among youth to promote health and prevent increasing levels of overweight among youth (54).

With youth sports concussion safety laws in place in all 50 states, increased public awareness about concussions, and growing concernabout the long - term effect of repetitive head impacts, the demand for concussion education, not just for parents, coaches, and athletes, but for health care professionals as well is at an all - time high, and promises to go even higher in the coming years.

The report suggested several reasons for the rural - urban disparity, including the increased transportation costs youth incur to travel to work or education in rural areas and the high cost to companies to deliver employment or training in less urban environments.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

This he said was in spite of the fact their decision to shut down the institution had resulted in increase in violent crimes on Ayingba and its environs, adding that «as a responsible government who has high regard for education as the pillar of the future of the state, we can not afford to fold our hands and watch the future of our youths mortgaged».

The government plans to cut «non-essential» education projects including youth clubs, after - school music and art activities and child safety projects to meet its commitment to increase funding for disadvantaged children under a pupil premium.

The Council identified eight major priorities in its response: increased investment in city youth; investment in healthcare, education, jobs and legal services for immigrants; specific funding for the diverse communities; capital investment in infrastructure; creating a Rainy Day Fund and adding to existing reserves; baselining essential city services; expanding criminal justice, community support, and human services; and more accurately tracking city agency performance.

The Theory of Change, presented by Child and Youth Finance International, proposes that financial, social and livelihoods education, combined with access to appropriate financial services, increases financial capability and social empowerment, ultimately leading to greater economic citizenship.

With Africa's growing youth bulge, how will African countries cope with increasing numbers of tertiary student enrolments and high costs of expanding higher education institutions?

The number of youths provided remedial education increased from 55,000 in 1986 to 112,000 in 1987, while spending for remediation expanded from $ 37 million to $ 64 million, the Congressional watchdog agency reported.

Recent increases in global youth population, unemployment, political instability, terrorism have impacted negatively on the gains attained through global education.

The borough also has the largest youth population of any London borough, and since 2010 has seen the number of young people with special educational needs for whom the borough maintains an education, health and care plan increase from 1,800 to 2,500.

Funded by: U.S. Department of Education via subcontract w / Institute for Educational Leadership Amount: $ 335,000 Dates: 11/15/15 — 9/30/20 Summary: The Vocational Rehabilitation Youth - Technical Assistance Center will be working intensively with 10 states to increase their capacity to serve youth with disabilities and disconnected yYouth - Technical Assistance Center will be working intensively with 10 states to increase their capacity to serve youth with disabilities and disconnected yyouth with disabilities and disconnected youthyouth.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

The report underscores the importance of providing education to homeless children and youth and the need for increased coordination among city agencies and the DOE to provide services to these students....

The NRCCTE at SREB is working with Manhattan Strategy Group and other partners to increase access to high - quality career pathways for youth and adults through a project funded by the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education at the U.S. Department of Education.

CCSA Advocates engages in efforts to provide education and resources to support more charter schools to increase civic participation on their campuses, including youth civic engagement.

The Stanford Law and Policy Lab and Stanford Law's Youth & Education Law Project (YELP), on behalf of the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA), released a guide today to address increasing student absences and decreasing parental participation in California's public charter schools among immigrant families in the wake of recent federal policy changes.

Fialkov, C. (2016) A Program for Positive Education and Teacher Empowerment: Increasing Resilience and Well Being in Kenyan Youth.

Fostering Success Michigan is a statewide initiative that aims to increase access and success in higher education and post-college careers for youth with experience in foster care.

He is coeditor of two JFF books: Double the Numbers: Increasing Postsecondary Credentials for Underrepresented Youth (Harvard Education Press) and Minding the Gap: Why Integrating High School with College Makes Sense and How to Do It (Harvard Education Press).

The demand for research - based practices in education and youth development has increased over time as access to rich and rigorous data has become available.

For instance, youth - supportive content creation communities, such as Scratch, have become increasing critiqued for agnostic design, while commercial content creation platforms that have traditionally operated from content agnostic positions have become increasingly leveraged for formal and informal education.

She has developed numerous partnerships between public schools, non-profits, higher education institutions, businesses, foundations, and industry in order to bolster student achievement and success that increased participation in after school programs, increased high school graduation rates, college enrollment rates, access to and achievement in advanced and rigorous coursework for historically underserved youth.

The grant awarded to Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom is one of 11 grants awarded to national nonprofit organizations totaling more than $ 33 million to fund nutrition education and meal programs for youth, and increase families» access to fruits and vegetables through state and federal nutrition assistance programs.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) presents a critical opportunity for state leaders to establish aligned K — 12 and higher education goals to increase the number of youth who successfully attain a postsecondary credential of value.

While models for civic education vary widely, innovative programs designed by states, nonprofits, and schools have chosen new ways to promote civics education and increase youth community engagement.

She is an editor of three JFF books: Double the Numbers: Increasing Postsecondary Credentials for Underrepresented Youth, Minding the Gap: Why Integrating High School with College Makes Sense and How to Do It, and most recently, Anytime, Anywhere: Student - Centered Learning for Schools and Teachers, all four published by the Harvard Education Press.

Established in 2002, the North Carolina Center for Afterschool Programs (NC CAP) is a comprehensive statewide afterschool and expanded learning network, with key partners including afterschool providers, state agencies, state and local policymakers, law enforcement, universities and community colleges, business, and the philanthropic community, working together to increase access to high quality afterschool and expanded learning programs for all children and youth in North Carolina, especially for those at - risk of education failure.

While the 2016 election brought a renewed interest in engagement among youth, 4 only 23 percent of eighth - graders performed at or above the proficient level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) civics exam, and achievement levels have virtually stagnated since 1998.5 In addition, the increased focus on math and reading in K - 12 education — while critical to prepare all students for success — has pushed out civics and other important subjects.

Thurmond passed legislation to provide millions of dollars to school districts to keep kids in school and out of the criminal justice system, fought for money to make sure that all California youth in foster care can go to college, and increased funding for early education programs.

He also has been a teacher, editor, and research assistant for the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, coeditor of Double the Numbers: Increasing Postsecondary Credentials for Underrepresented Youth (Harvard Education Press) and Minding the Gap: Why Integrating High School with College Makes Sense and How to Do It (Harvard Education Press).

Selection criteria in the RFP aligns with the RtC vision that libraries play a critical role in increasing access and exposure to CS opportunity, changing perceptions of who can code and inspiring all youth to pursue CS education by connecting coding to individual interests.

The worldwide movement to embed financial education into schools has gained impetus due to some major changes in society over the past decade, such as the Global Financial Crisis, an increase in youth debt (e.g. mobile phone debt) and research linking financial problems with low quality of life.

Desire to make a positive difference in the education of youth to increase their understanding, appreciation and respect for shelter dogs and cats and for each other as individuals.

Kansas Humane Society Highlights from 2016: Total animals in our care - 15,660 Live animal intake - 11,918 Live animal outcomes - 10,330 Euthanasia - 1,588 which is down 554 from last year Increased Save Rate from 83 % to 87 % Performed a total of 8,651 Spay / Neuter surgeries to help reduce overpopulation (2,843 of those were donor - subsidized for low - income familes) The Youth Education Program reached 14,311 children in our community

Not only does this tremendous community effort create a visually attractive beach for the enjoyment of visitors and locals but it also reduces vandalism through youth participation, increases interaction among various groups, promotes public awareness and education, maintains pleasant and attractive beaches, protects the environment, improves resource management, increases pride and moral, improves health standards, promotes tourism and prevents litter.

Government through Education and Culture Department holds folktale recitation competitions occasionally to increase the interest of the youth on folktale.

«Africentric» schools are supposed to provide a curriculum that focuses on the history and contributions of people of African descent, with the aim of increasing the engagement of black youths in the education system.

increase the participation in education and attendance of Indigenous youth of compulsory school age;

Social Worker's Practice Guide to Education for Children and Youth in Foster Care (PDF - 1126 KB) Washington Children's Administration (2007) Serves as a resource for caseworkers to increase their collaboration with schools and to increase education stability and achievement for children and youth in out - of - hEducation for Children and Youth in Foster Care (PDF - 1126 KB) Washington Children's Administration (2007) Serves as a resource for caseworkers to increase their collaboration with schools and to increase education stability and achievement for children and youth in out - of - home Youth in Foster Care (PDF - 1126 KB) Washington Children's Administration (2007) Serves as a resource for caseworkers to increase their collaboration with schools and to increase education stability and achievement for children and youth in out - of - heducation stability and achievement for children and youth in out - of - home youth in out - of - home care.

Their mission is, «to increase and enhance healthy youth development and education success, through family engagement, access, participation, advocacy and leadership.

Institutions of Higher Education Program Directory'There is Diversity Within Diversity»: Community Leaders» Views on Increasing Diversity in Youth Serving Organizations (2005)

The Action Fund's primary purpose is educating voters about public policies that impact reproductive health care and rights — such as adequate funding for family planning services, access to safe and affordable abortion, the promotion of medically - accurate, age - appropriate sex education for our youth, increased access to emergency contraception and confidential health services for minors.

Gov. Brown's Final Budget: Increased Spending on Foster Youth Education, New Home Visiting and Juvenile Justice Programs

Our goals include increasing the perception of harm of underage use of alcohol and substance abuse, establishing lasting healthy behaviors, and providing access to education, training, and opportunities for youth to create social change in their communities.

Adolescents who attend special education for behavioural problems (SEB) and adolescents who live in a residential youth care institution (RYC) are characterised by behavioural disorders and problematic family backgrounds and have an increased risk for substance use.